[meteorite-list] "Meteorite" for $7.1 billion per gram!

From: Greg Hupe <gmhupe_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Jan 26 17:18:44 2006
Message-ID: <044201c622c6$768478e0$ae125c18_at_Gregor>

Hello Marcin and List,

Marcin wrote:
"Think what could be done in Earth for that
ammount of money (except next War ofcourse).
Thousands of people die becouse have no food. Lets think about this when
next time we look on photo of microscopic grain in a gel :-| "

Think of all of the new technologies that the space program has invented and
developed that help ALL people throughout the world on a daily basis
(including growing food in harsh environments!).

Cheers,
Greg


----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcin Cimala" <marcin_at_meteoryt.net>
To: "Martin Horejsi" <accretiondesk_at_gmail.com>; "Meteorite Mailing List"
<meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] "Meteorite" for $7.1 billion per gram!


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Horejsi" <accretiondesk_at_gmail.com>
> Someone check my math, but I figure that if the Stardust sample return
> is priced per gram given a cost of $200,000,000 for 0.028g of material
> (based upon the website, and might be rather generous), the price per
> gram topped $7 billion!
>
> $7,142,857,143/g to be exact. Think NASA accepts credit cards?
>
> =======
> Hmm, this looks like Nasa have too big budget. I only hope that this dust
> is
> worth to spend that money. Think what could be done in Earth for that
> ammount of money (except next War ofcourse).
> Thousands of people die becouse have no food. Lets think about this when
> next time we look on photo of microscopic grain in a gel :-|
>
>
>
> -----[ MARCIN CIMALA ]-----[ I.M.C.A.#3667 ]-----
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